Survival analysis in patients hospitalized with influenza (H1N1)
International Journal of Development Research
Survival analysis in patients hospitalized with influenza (H1N1)
Received 22nd December, 2018; Received in revised form 29th January, 2019; Accepted 22nd February, 2019; Published online 31st March, 2019.
Copyright © 2018, Prameela Margaret. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This is a descriptive, epidemiological, epidemiological study of the ecological type of a time series, with a quantitative approach, aiming to identify the relationship between social and demographic characteristics in the survival of patients hospitalized for influenza in Paraíba. The research was performed by the method of survival analysis and counted with 2,846 records collected from January to June 2016. Of these patients, 192 (6.7%) died. It was found that the influenza death rate of hospitalized individuals is higher in patients over 50 years of age, hospitalized by clinical specialty, and who incur greater expenses with hospitalization.
